6 papers
Quantifying Foreground Contamination in the Dark Ages 21 cm Power Spectrum Using an Electromagnetically Simulated Dipole Antenna Atop a Dielectric Surface
Willow Smith, Jonathan C. Pober, Bang D. Nahn +2
The highly-redshifted 21 cm signal from the cosmic Dark Ages presents an exciting frontier for cosmology, with the potential to observe a large number of Fourier modes of the cosmi…
Site selection for the Laser Interferometer Lunar Antenna (LILA)
James Trippe, Ronald Polidan, Teviet Creighton +6
The Earth's Moon presents a uniquely advantageous environment for detecting astrophysical gravitational waves (GWs), particularly in the decihertz regime. The Laser Interferometer…
The FarView Low Frequency Radio Array on the Moon's Far Side: Science and Array Architecture
Jack O. Burns, Judd Bowman, Tzu-Ching Chang +8
FarView is a proposed low frequency radio interferometer for deployment on the lunar far side, enabled by the Moon's radio quiet environment. Operating over 1-50 MHz inaccessible f…
Identifying Habitable Exoplanets with Radio Telescopes on the Lunar Farside
N. Mahesh, J. D. Bowman, J. O. Burns +11
The search for habitable conditions beyond Earth is a top priority in astrophysics. The discovery of habitable exoplanets beyond our solar system will require a suite of instrument…
Studying Exoplanets in the Radio from the Moon
Jake D. Turner, Jack O. Burns, David Rapetti +12
Exoplanets with and without a magnetic field are predicted to form, behave, and evolve very differently. Therefore, there is great need to directly constrain these fields to holist…
FarView: An In-Situ Manufactured Lunar Far Side Radio Array Concept for 21-cm Dark Ages Cosmology
Ronald S. Polidan, Jack O. Burns, Alex Ignatiev +7
FarView is an early-stage concept for a large, low-frequency radio observatory, manufactured in-situ on the lunar far side using metals extracted from the lunar regolith. It consis…